2019 Fringe Freak Pass

Double Feature: Anatomy of a Burlesque Outside the Box and For Love of Country - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

January 24, 2019 5:00 PM - January 26, 2019 5:00 PM

Anatomy of a Burlesque Outside the Box - Summoning themes of Sumerian and Greek mythology, archetypes, and modern iconographic identities, Anatomy of a Burlesque employs dance and theatrical bawdiness in a playful and serious post-modern exploration of self-actualization in this interactive piece. For Love of Country: A meditation on the price of winning at any cost, inspired by the true story of a Russian spy who infiltrated American politics.

The Oracle of Everything: A One-Woman Performance of Divination, Poetry, Folk-Wisdom and Weirdness/ A View From My Backyard sheds light on childhood memories growing up in Texas and in a vibrant Latino community.

The Dance is a short physical theatre two person performance using Jacques Lecoq style Larval masks. VESSEL is a solo contemporary dance work that explores humanity through the lens of immigration. Psyche is a modern examination of Cupid and Psyche myth.

Vitali-D - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

'33 (a kabarett) - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

January 24, 2019 9:00 PM - January 26, 2019 9:00 PM

'33 (a kabarett) - In a ruined theatre, an actor tumbles onto a darkened stage. When the lights come up he finds himself alone: his friends and colleagues disappeared, arrested by the authorities. Only their glittering, torn costumes remain. So, in tribute, he joyously, defiantly, recreates the acts of the missing company.

Red, a period piece, is a movement exploration of Aunt Flos regular visits and the challenges in securing her luggage. Intersect explores the phenomenon of change, developed from stories of multiple women told through poetry, the movement, and relationships between the dancers provide a look at the many responses we can have to the ever-changing scope of human connection throughout life.

The Cardigan Club is a regularly performing troupe with Asheville Improv Collective. In Straight Razor the performer/composer/poet trio formed by Peter Brezny, Holiday Childress, and Julian Vorus propels audiences to keep in mind whats really important in life when the razors edge is against your aorta.

In/Visible Theatre Presents: Furrow - Sarah is no stranger to, well, strangers: anyone who has worked retailespecially during the holidayscan tell you about the odd people who come into the store. So strangers are no problem until now, when the strangest stranger in Sarahs life isher father.

Jenni Cockrells unconventional reframing of the women of Shakespeare continues with a new Butoh solo, nothing, delving into the daughters of King Lear. Constance Humphries presents an excerpt of a work in progress, The Beautiful Us, which premieres at the 13th Asheville Butoh Festival. The piece addresses issues of the body, love and trust through the lens of liminality.

Sonic Parlour The sculpting of sound. An experimental music project. The medium of which is Theremins. OKAPI is a duo utilizing upright bass, cello, and voice through aggressive (yet intimate) orchestrations, which carry messages encouraging individual empowerment, healthy growth, and the conscious confrontation with reality.

LaZoom Fringe Bus Tour - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

January 25, 2019 7:00 PM - January 27, 2019 4:00 PM

A long-time fan favorite of Asheville Fringe, the LaZoom Fringe Bus tour will leave you amazed and delighted, all while traveling through our beautiful city. This performance is the most unique, because passengers will be taken to secret locations around the city and treated to wildly weird pop-up performances.

Physical Poetry - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

January 25, 2019 7:00 PM - January 27, 2019 4:00 PM

Physical Poetry is a collaboration between contemporary dance collective Yuhas & Dancers and Charleston's esteemed Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker. Physical Poetry reflects a world of discourse and kinesthetic empathy, revealing our position of response in the face of adversity through poetry, dance, and a lot of duct tape.

The Static Channel - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

January 25, 2019 7:00 PM - January 27, 2019 4:00 PM

The Static Channel is the 3rd tragicomic stage play in 3 years from local upsetters, Down With Pants, penned by comedian Corr de Joch with vital collaboration from the DWP creative activationist performance collective. Expect awkward cackling, participatory assumption-erosion, some growing pains, gobbets of raving euphoria, & self-assigned homework.

Bread Riot - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

Delightfully Rude - 2019 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival

January 25, 2019 9:00 PM - January 27, 2019 6:00 PM

Starting off with something easy, like guns, Elaine weaves through both personal and political topics in a stand-up special she would describe as unapologetically feminist except she wants people to actually show up.

Café Negro is the convergence of 3 people of color establishing themselves in a white world through comedy and hiphop. The Grand Maw utilizes interpretive dance/theatre, uncomfortable subject matters, and extreme/provocative imagery to provoke or raise awareness, to both amaze and appall, and of course to entertain

To Dragon, With Love: Humorous and bizarre, a bearded, bolding ballerina in a tutu expresses the dark inner world of a child, as a young girl tells the story of magical dancing characters. Marvelous Mechanical Musical Maiden: A singular origin story cabaret. Discover this woman, once flesh and blood like you, who tangled with the Wizard of the Electric Age and lost her voice to a body of brass.